Ubuntu Manpage: uniprint - produce postscript output from unicode text for printing

NAME

       uniprint - produce postscript output from unicode text for printing

SYNOPSIS

       uniprint [ -out output-file ] [ -in input-file ] [ -decode encoding ] [ -printer printer ]
       [ -L ] [ -media media ] [ -us ] [ -nus ] [ -break ] [ -wrap ] [ -left ] [ -right ] [ -size
       font-size ] [ -hsize header-font-size ] [ -font truetype-font-file ]

DESCRIPTION

       uniprint  is  a  program from the yudit distribution. It makes a formatted poscript output
       that can be saved or directly sent to the printer.  The program needs a TrueType font that
       has unicode table in order  to operate.

       If  you are running Linux you most probably have unicode truetype fonts, because there are
       very few vendors, if any. who give discount if you do not buy Windows. If you are  running
       other Unices it is still possible to get a freely available font. I have made ciberbit.ttf
       a  default  font  for  uniprint,  mainly  because   it   is   freely   downloadable   from
       http://www.bitstream.com/.

       The  postcript  output contains all drawing information. No extra fonts are needed, and it
       can be printed on any postscript printer.  You may encounter probkems with  old  ghostview
       or  old  printers.  I  used this program with ghostscript 5.10 because 2.6.2 gave me stack
       overflow error.

OPTIONS

-out ouput-file
Do not sent the output to the printer, put it in the file instead. If the '-'
character is specified, send the postscript data to the standard output.

-in input-file
If specified read the document from a file. Read stdin otherwise.

-decode encoding
specifies the encoding of the input text. All encodings that are available for
uniconv can be used. If not specified encoding is set to utf-8.

-printer printer
Send the postscript output to printer through the 'lpr -P Printer' command.

-break option makes this program print a graphical representation of line breaking
characters.

-us option turns on uniscribe emulation. For some scripts emulation is turned on by
default.

-nus option turns off uniscribe emulation. For some scripts emulation is turned off by
default.

-wrap option makes this program do a simplistic line breaking on word boundaries.

-left option sets the embedding of the document to Left.

-right option sets the embedding of the document to Right.

-L Selects landscape printing. The default is portrait.

-media media
Sets paper size. The default is A4. The following media values are accepted: A3,
A4, A5, B4, B5, Executive, Folio, Ledger, Legal, Letter, Quarto, Statement, Tabloid

-size font-size
sets the size of the font for the text body in points.

-hsize heder-font-size
sets the size of the font for the header in points. If zero size is specified, no
header is printed.

-font truetype-font
specifies the font to be used for printing.

truetype-font is the full pathname of the font, like /somepath/myfonts/cyberbit.ttf
or just the name of the file cyberbit.ttf. The fonts are searched using
yudit.fontpath property in ~/.yudit/yudit.properties or
/usr/share/yudit/config/yudit.properties. directory where the font files are kept.
By default /usr/share/yudit/fonts and ~/.yudit/fonts are searched. This option can
be specified multiple times, to create a virtual font.

FILES

       ~/.yudit/yudit.properties    or    /usr/share/yudit/config/yudit.properties    can    have
       yudit.fontpath  and  yudit.datapath  properties.   The former is where the font files, the
       latter is where the map files are kept.  By default /usr/share/yudit/fonts is searched.

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